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The main game scene

Now it's time to bring everything we did together into a playable game scene.

Create a new scene and add a Node named Main. (The reason we are using Node instead of Node2D is because this node will be a container for handling game logic. It does not require 2D functionality itself.)

Click the Instance button (represented by a chain link icon) and select your saved Player.tscn.

Now, add the following nodes as children of Main, and name them as shown (values are in seconds):

• Timer (named MobTimer) - to control how often mobs spawn

• Timer (named ScoreTimer) - to increment the score every second

• Timer (named StartTimer) - to give a delay before starting

• Marker2D (named StartPosition) - to indicate the player's start position

Set the Wait Time property of each of the Timer nodes as follows:

• MobTimer: 0.5

• ScoreTimer: 1

• StartTimer: 2

In addition, set the One Shot property of StartTimer to "On" and set Position of the StartPosition node to (240, 450).

Spawning mobs

The Main node will be spawning new mobs, and we want them to appear at a random location on the edge of the screen. Add a Path2D node named MobPath as a child of Main. When you select Path2D, you will see some new buttons at the top of the editor:

Select the middle one ("Add Point") and draw the path by clicking to add the points at the corners shown. To have the points snap to the grid, make sure "Use Grid Snap" and "Use Smart Snap" are both selected. These options can be found to the left of the "Lock" button, appearing as a magnet next to some dots and intersecting lines, respectively.

Important

Draw the path in clockwise order, or your mobs will spawn pointing outwards instead of inwards!

After placing point 4 in the image, click the "Close Curve" button and your curve will be complete.

Now that the path is defined, add a PathFollow2D node as a child of MobPath and name it MobSpawnLocation. This node will automatically rotate and follow the path as it moves, so we can use it to select a random position and direction along the path.

Your scene should look like this:

Main script

Add a script to Main. At the top of the script, we use @export var mob_scene: PackedScene to allow us to choose the Mob scene we want to instance.

GDScriptC#C++

extends Node

@export var mob_scene: PackedScene
var score

Click the Main node and you will see the Mob Scene property in the Inspector under "Script Variables".

You can assign this property's value in two ways:

• Drag Mob.tscn from the "FileSystem" dock and drop it in the Mob Scene property.

• Click the down arrow next to "[empty]" and choose "Load". Select Mob.tscn.

Next, select the Player node in the Scene dock, and access the Node dock on the sidebar. Make sure to have the Signals tab selected in the Node dock.

You should see a list of the signals for the Player node. Find and double-click the hit signal in the list (or right-click it and select "Connect..."). This will open the signal connection dialog. We want to make a new function named game_over, which will handle what needs to happen when a game ends. Type "game_over" in the "Receiver Method" box at the bottom of the signal connection dialog and click "Connect". Add the following code to the new function, as well as a new_game function that will set everything up for a new game:

GDScriptC#C++

func game_over():
    $ScoreTimer.stop()
    $MobTimer.stop()

func new_game():
    score = 0
    $Player.start($StartPosition.position)
    $StartTimer.start()